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POLITICO 44

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday night that Americans are less “safe” than they were a year ago.

During an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, the former Republican congressman from Georgia blamed a federal bureaucracy that is “so lacking in focus” that even though the father of the accused Christmas Day bomber warned a U.S. embassy about his son, “we couldn’t find a way to stop him.”

“We are not safe. We are in much greater danger than we were a year ago,” Gingrich said, though adding that “it’s not just Bush vs. Obama.”

“The North Koreans had an additional year to build missiles,” he said. “Iranians had an additional year to develop their nuclear weapons and keep paying for terrorists. Al Qaeda had an additional year. And by the way, two of the top four people in Al Qaeda in Yemen were released from Guantanamo Bay.”

Gingrich also accused the administration of “very quietly” signing an executive order that removes “all American constraints” from the international police force Interpol.

“Freedom of information acts don't apply,” he said. “All the constraints that you as a citizen could use against an American police force, based on a recent Obama-signed executive order, give Interpol — which has relationships with Syria, Libya, with Iran — it gives them all sorts of extra legality in the United States in a way that has never, ever before been offered to Interpol.”

Gingrich said that the Obama administration would provide more leeway to an international force because Attorney General Eric Holder is most concerned with “protecting the rights of terrorists.”

“He lives in a world where somehow the United States is dangerous and the United States government is dangerous,” Gingrich said of Holder.

In his December executive order, Obama expanded on Executive Order 12425 — signed by President Ronald Reagan — granting Interpol the same exemptions provided to numerous groups under the International Organizations Immunities Act. Reagan’s order did not include provisions to block the search and seizure of property and records of Interpol employees — as the act provides for other groups — nor grant the organization exemptions on federal taxes, property taxes and Social Security.

By now the people can read the writing on the wall about the language and attitude President Obama has toward this country. Bush was criticized for his cowboy language and they said he wore his patriotism on his sleeve. We have had the same system in place for eight years and no attacks. That was a reflection on Bush. If there's a lack of security due to the language and attitude of President toward this country then that's a reflection on President Obama. Bush's language and attitude toward terrorism made us safe for eight years. The language and attitude President Obama has toward this country makes us less safe. Everyone knew that before Gingrich said one word.

What is it going to take from all of you liberals who idolize a false prophet to realize what you are doing to this country. We are not safe from Obama, Holder, Frank, Reid, Pelosi, and the list goes on and on. What mind set could you possibly have to sit back and watch our country turn to mush. The whole lot of you need to be imprisioned for treason, and at the very least extradicted to an island where you cannot harm anyone else.

By now the people can read the writing on the wall about the language and attitude President Obama has toward this country. Bush was criticized for his cowboy language and they said he wore his patriotism on his sleeve. We have had the same system in place for eight years and no attacks. That was a reflection on Bush. If there's a lack of security due to the language and attitude of President toward this country then that's a reflection on President Obama. Bush's language and attitude toward terrorism made us safe for eight years. The language and attitude President Obama has toward this country makes us less safe. Everyone knew that before Gingrich said one word.

Oh please! You're pining for the good 'ol days of the Bush Administration and it's fabricated "terror alerts?" Why do you people thrive on fear? I seriously don't get it.

And your assertion about Bush keeping us safe for eight years should have included, except for the biggest terrorist attack in our nation's history. There were other attacks as well (anthrax) that you conveniently left out. And language has nothing to do with whether we will get attacked again. What a ridiculous statement! Sheesh.

Did Newt miss that those Al-Qaeda people were released by Bush? And since when do we need security advice from a man who spent years avoiding the fight against Communism, terrorism and every other threat against America? He chose to indulge his carnal and political appetites rather than risk himself help one person avoid tyranny.

So you're an advocate of keeping Gitmo open for business and detaining it's current and future resident indefinitely?

Or are you desperately tossing any hypocritical thought that pops in your mind?

ROTFLMAO

WHY isn't this Christmas bombing in Gitmo RIGHT NOW having water shoved up his nose (and bamboo shoots under his nails for all I care) until he tells interrogators everything he knows about the people and organization that abetted him in his failed attack?

The reason, Gingrich said, that the Obama administration would provide more leeway to an international force, is that Attorney General Eric Holder is most concerned with “protecting the rights of terrorists.”

“He lives in a world where somehow the United States is dangerous and the United States government is dangerous,” Gingrich said of Holder.

And I agree 100% with Newt! Holder and Obama care less than a whit about Security and justice...they only care about the "Appearance of Prudence" in the world view. This is one reason for the world apology tour....a tour that seemingly has backfired and placed Obama in the position of appearing to be a weakling; a timid soul with no disposable mettle, and as such is inviting attacks on those that he's supposed to protect. It's very possible that if it hadn't have been for a Dutchman with courage we'd be mourning the deaths of some 300+ more Americans that died under terrorist attack, and all because of lackadaisical whackjob-democrat enforcement of security precautions that seemingly worked quite well under the Bush administration.

I think that within another 30 days the polls will show that Americans wish for Bush's to return will rise above 50%, especially if there is another attempt of terror.!

Excuse me, but I thought Newt was impeached for being a typical holier-than-thou-but-really-a-closet-adulterer-republican? Why is his opinion even relevant? Did he know before he opened his mouth that it was under the Bush/Cheney administration that those Al-Qaeda were released to Yemen? Did he know that complaining about Executive Order 12425 was actually complaining about extending a Reagan era policy?

This double standard that the Republicans embrace has gotten completely out of control. Obama is "dithering" for taking 3 days to address the underwear bomber, but it was fine for GWB to take 6 days to address the shoe bomber. Its an outrage to try the underwear bomber in civilian courts, but it was perfectly acceptable for the shoe bomber. It was fine when GWB wanted to close Gitmo, but because Obama wants to, its going to make us less safe. On and on they complain about every move this president makes, while all the while a lot of it has just been a continuation of the last administration. They are so blindingly STUPID, that they don't even realize it.

WHY isn't this Christmas bombing in Gitmo RIGHT NOW having water shoved up his nose (and bamboo shoots under his nails for all I care) until he tells interrogators everything he knows about the people and organization that abetted him in his failed attack?

Because they did not do it to the shoe bomber, so why start now? I mean the Bush administration set the precedent for trying people like this in civilian courts. You do know that the shoe bomber is sitting in a federal supermax prison, here on American soil right? You do know that then sec of defense Rumsfeld specifically stated that it was NOT a defense issue, but a law enforcement issue right?